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Facial disfigurement, how do teenagers cope? 03 Aug 2006
None of us is perfect, even the most beautiful women seem rarely to be satisfied with the way they look, but it's estimated that one in every one hundred children has some form of facial disfigurement, and that can be really difficult to deal with. Jessica Lee is a teenager who has a condition called asperts syndrome. Judy Merry went to Liverpool to meet her and her family at home. She spoke to Jessica about growing up when you don't look like everybody else.

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